When I first saw the movie ‘Guide,’ I was enthralled by the arc of Raju, his catharsis, and almost a Valmiki’an transformation. It made me wonder – Why isn’t this adapted into an Oscar-winning Hollywood movie! Well, some people did try, and let’s just say that some layouts look good on architectural paper, but, in …
Watching a movie twice in a theatre is the ultimate endorsement of a movie, and Adha-dhun compelled me to do so, for a simple reason – due to the modern invention of ‘the mobile phone’, my viewing of the piano-dead-body scene was highly interrupted. The scene is probably an iconic scene, in due time it …
The most amazing part of Luther is it’s gripping story line and it’s equally gripping characters. The central character of ‘Luther’ played by Idris Alba, is just amazing, the range of emotions he displays in the drama is amazing, and opposite him is an equally astonishing character of ‘Alice Morgan’ played by Ruth Wilson. Luther …
Someone very wise has remarked, ‘Something is a sport only when the other side knows that there is a game on’. And by this definition hunting is NOT a sport. Hunting for food is an activity, hunting for pleasure in this modern-day and age can be achieved by a nice simulation in a video game. …
The basic theme of Ready Player One has potential. We have all read newspaper reports about couples immersed in games like Age of Empires, Fortnite etc.forgetting to attend their own babies. (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/mar/05/korean-girl-starved-online-game)However, we have treated such deep level involvement in games as aberrations. RP1 turns this on its head and imagines a society where everyone …
I was watching Nawazuddin’s interview online in which he was speaking passionately about his movie Raman Raghav 2.0. He expected the movie to do well. However the interviewer was bemused, as the dark movie showed killing of a young child and how can you expect such a dark movie to do well with Indian audiences! …
